If you're not planning to release your own hardware, could you provide a list of devices that the software is tested with? I looked on the site a bit but the crazy art thing triggered my ADHD and OCD as well. I imagine the idea is that you can compile it for whatever device on any platform with some change but makes it harder for community engagement without a go to for sure platform to test some builds and POCs.
Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
It may not be designed to "listen around the room explicitly", but my phone makes a decent speaker phone, so it still has that capability. And to be honest, I'd be less concerned with what my Echo hears in my livingroom compared with what my phone hears all day long. The Echo has pretty decent privacy settings (only listens when you say the "wake word", etc).
I don't disagree with phone vs stationary speaker in your house, but the "wake word" issue is precisely what the article deals with.
The article is talking about patents filed that may or may not ever end up in products, not current technology.
But any wider use of audio processing to listen for keywords besides the wake word apply equally well to a cell phone. So again, the cell phone is at least as big a concern as an Echo, if not bigger since many people are rarely outside of arms-reach of their phone.
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#103You can't trust the large companies who have a culture of profiting off your data to protect your privacy. This is why we need AI at the edge, and not in the clouds, and Privacy-by-design thinking in our architectures. This is the only way for people to know their data won't be compromised and misused, because it never leaves their devices. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai and we are building a 100% o…
what's your business model if everyone can download and build their own image, or even re-distribute that in their own products? as far as Alexa goes, I unplugged it a few months ago and it's collecting dust now, I use my cellphone to check weather and for alarm clock instead, I don't see much use for Alexa other than those two simple tasks.
> far as Alexa goes, I unplugged it a few months ago and it's collecting dust now
Ha, I got a google home mini free as part of some promotion, and I haven't even broken the shrink wrap. I need to find a way to sell that thing for a few bucks before it becomes outdated, because I sure have no interest in it.
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#104You can't trust the large companies who have a culture of profiting off your data to protect your privacy. This is why we need AI at the edge, and not in the clouds, and Privacy-by-design thinking in our architectures. This is the only way for people to know their data won't be compromised and misused, because it never leaves their devices. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai and we are building a 100% o…
any plans to integrate with https://www.home-assistant.io/ ?
Snips + Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
any plans to integrate with https://www.home-assistant.io/ ?
We have an integration with Home Assistant and are now working on making this even easier, stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter to be informed when the integration is complete
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#106The things people are willing to give up for the most minimal of conveniences are only going to get worse in the next decade. I wouldn't be willing to put an open wiretap in my home, even if it did something amazing, like extend my lifespan. The quality of my life is not significantly improved with these devices, and all of their practical uses can be duplicated with the minimal effort of tapping a screen a couple of…
Damn. I would. I probably did anyways by carrying my cell phone with me everywhere.
The problem is not understanding the tradeoffs or even not understanding that there's a choice at all.
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#107Alexa could enable subtle insider trading by both Amazon employees and Amazon AIs.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm seriously shocked by the number of people that are putting always on "assistants" in their home - but more so on the number of people that should know better, like HN people.
What's shocking about it? For just the Echo, Amazon claims to have sold 20 million devices so they are probably in at least 10 million homes. How many of the people that buy an Echo have been harmed so far? I have an Echo and use it daily for music, weather, timers, home automation (ie controlling lights and fans), etc... I also drive a car almost every day and that has a relatively high probability of killing me. Co…
When the German government started gathering data about religion of its citizens, way before WW2, how many people were harmed by filling out that one field on the form? Zero. No one was harmed by the collection of that data. Except that then WW2 arrived and this data was used to exterminate entire communities. In my own country(Poland) the secret police used to gather all data on people and do nothing with it - until you gave them a reason to, then they had entire archives of recorded conversations, intercepted letters, logs of visits and journeys, ready to be browsed in search for anything that could be used against you.
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#109Companies use patents defensively and the Times is fully aware of that so this comes across as cynical clickbait. What I find interesting is that they keep quoting "consumer watchdog" an anti google organization turned anti technology (they're against self driving cars and robots now). The scary thing is that mainstream respected news outlets casually traffic in technophobia as evident form articles about automation…
That is a lot of buzzwords.
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#110You can't trust the large companies who have a culture of profiting off your data to protect your privacy. This is why we need AI at the edge, and not in the clouds, and Privacy-by-design thinking in our architectures. This is the only way for people to know their data won't be compromised and misused, because it never leaves their devices. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai and we are building a 100% o…
Although the user who complained about your using HN to post about this broke the guidelines by being uncivil, they do appear to have a point: it looks like you've been using HN exclusively to promote your own stuff. That's not what the site is for.
There's nothing wrong with posting links to your own work when it's relevant, but please don't use HN only for this. The site is intended for intellectual curiosity, i.e. submitting, reading, and commenting on stories that you run across and personally find interesting. So if you use it exclusively for promotion, you're not really participating in the community as intended. Does that make sense?